Varun Wadekar
Engineering Lead - Functional Safety, System Software Security at NVIDIA
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVarun Wadekar is an engineering lead specializing in functional safety and system software security with 18+ years of experience building and shipping secure firmware, Trusted OSes, and Linux kernel subsystems for NVIDIA Tegra SoCs. He combines hands-on expertise—maintainer of ARM Trusted Firmware for Tegra and co-author/lead developer of NVIDIA’s Trusted Little Kernel—with leadership in safety-certified development under ISO26262 and Automotive SPICE. Varun has driven SoC bring-up from FPGA to production, architected secure-world features like SecureVault and DRM key handling, and led cross-site teams to deliver complex pre-silicon prototypes. Notably, he pairs deep low-level cryptography and TrustZone experience with a strong customer-facing track record of resolving field issues to help partners ship on schedule. Based in Cambridge, UK, he mentors engineers and consistently translates rigorous safety analyses (FMEA/FTA) into practical, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Under-graduation, Science, Under-graduation, Science at M.I.T Jr. College, PuneSavitribai Phule Pune University
English, German
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Github contributions (5)
vwarrier/ABCD_geneticQC
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 54 commits, 53 pushes in 4 months
vwarrier/PGSinUKB
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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